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Alison Harvey

Work Department

Immigration and Public law

Position

Barrister specialising in nationality, immigration, and asylum and in public law, with a particular focus on cases with an immigration element and court of protection cases.

Career

Alison Harvey has worked in the UK and overseas, including with refugees, the internally displaced and the trafficked for the UN and NGOs in West Africa, Darfur, Azerbaijan and Greece.  She has worked extensively on the development of immigration law and policy in the UK, advising those lobbying on, and challenging, a total of nine immigration Acts (to date) as well as on the development of the points-based system and the immigration aspects of Brexit.  . She was General Secretary, then Legal Director of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association.

 

She represents clients in the high court and in the tribunals, particularly in the Upper Tribunal.  A substantial part of her practice is advice on complex points of nationality, asylum and immigration law.  She accepts direct access work in appropriate cases.

 

She trains, lectures and writes widely on immigration, asylum, nationality and human rights law.  She is a contributor to Fransman’s British Nationality Law and to Macdonald’s Immigration Law and Practice.  She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality law. She is chair of trustees of Kalayaan, which works with migrant domestic workers, and a former trustee of ECPAT UK, Asylum Aid and Bail for Immigration Detainees.

Languages

Fluent in French

Memberships

Administrative Law Bar Association

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association

Associate member, European Network on Statelessness

Member Lexis PSL Consulting Editorial Board

Member, Expert Advisory Panel of the Strategic Legal Fund for Vulnerable Young Migrants

Member, editorial board of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law

Bar Council representative to Home Office Simplification of the [Immigration] Rules Review Committee

Education

11/95                Called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Inner Temple.

93 – 94             Bar Finals course, Inns of Court School of Law.  Passed with an award of Very Competent.

92 – 93              Diploma in Law (Common Professional Examination, City University, London.  Awarded with Merit.

91 – 92              MA in Human Rights and Civil Liberties Law, University of Leicester.  Awarded with distinction (distinction in all subjects and in the final dissertation).

90 – 91              Reading for M.Litt./D.Phil. in French, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages &      Merton College, University of Oxford.  I did not pursue this research.

85 – 90             BA Joint Honours in French and Philosophy, Merton College, University of Oxford.  Awarded First Class, with distinction in the oral examination.  Included one year’s residency in France.